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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Through the Ironwood Curtain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Sawi warriors bring on their first trading mission to Pirimapun?
(a) Guns, ammunition, spears and dynamite.
(b) Pottery made from dark red riverbank clay.
(c) Sago flour, beetle grubs, lori parrots and chickens.
(d) Elaborately carved masks and feather-adorned costumes.

2. Why does Yae's wife, Kautap, throw his stone ax in the river when she hears that her husband has been murdered?
(a) She is angry at him for going to Haenam.
(b) She doesn't want anyone else to use it.
(c) She is mad with grief.
(d) She believes Yae's spirit will need the ax in the world of the dead.

3. What does the woman Anai do when she hears that Yae's jawbone will be given to her?
(a) She promises that she will send it to Yae's wife as an expression of her sympathy.
(b) She takes the bone and grinds it into fine dust and then spreads it atop the river.
(c) She is filled with remorse and grief and refuses to take it.
(d) She cries out in jubilation and dances to celebrate her great honor.

4. What does Richardson like about the possibility of building on the kidari?
(a) It is close to connections for electricity and gas.
(b) It is a good place for the mission plane to land.
(c) It is in the middle of a large village.
(d) It is surrounded by huge stone walls.

5. What kind of flour do the Sawi women use to make bread?
(a) Bamboo fiber flour.
(b) Whole wheat flour.
(c) Rice flour.
(d) Sago flour.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who actually completes the murder of Yae?

2. What do the Sawi warriors do when they meet Don Richardson and John McCain for the first time?

3. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?

4. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?

5. Why does Kauwan refuse to help Yae escape his terrible fate?

(see the answer key)

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